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Discussion: Social and Emotional Intelligence

• What ideas or phrases come to mind when you hear the term intelligence? Prior to the current emphasis on emotional and social intelligence, individuals tended to associate intelligence with one measurement: intelligence quotient or the IQ. While the IQ focuses on intellectual abilities, emotional intelligence focuses on an individual's awareness of his or her feelings and the feelings of others, and social intelligence focuses on an individual's interpersonal skills (Zastrow & Kirst-Ashman, 2019, pp. 493-494).

Post a Discussion that includes the following:

1. An explanation of how social and emotional intelligence are related to cultural factors
2. An explanation about how you, as a social worker, might apply the concepts of emotional and/or social intelligence to the case of Andres
3. An explanation of how social workers, in general, might apply social and emotional intelligence to social work practice. (Include a specific example in the explanation.)